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    It is not the case that Motion is never taking place in the present moment

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    • 1.A moving object occupies no single determinate position at any instant, but rather a range of positions across a temporal interval.
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    • 2.If motion requires an extended interval rather than an instant, then motion is precisely what is occurring across the present moment, not absent from it.
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    • 3.Denying motion in the present conflates the mathematical abstraction of an instantaneous point with the lived, physically real present interval.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Russell's 'at-at' theory establishes that being at different places at different times is not merely evidence of past motion but constitutes the complete analysis of what motion is.
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    • 2.If occupying different positions at successive times fully defines motion, then a body currently undergoing this process is, by definition, currently in motion.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Things can be in different places at different times
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    • 2.The fact that an item occupies different positions at different times only entails that it has moved, not that motion is currently occurring
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